It's been widely reported and that makes it fact-esque. - Stephen Colbert

Gupta's out and I don't care why. The Health Reform Director still hasn't been cast. Can Dean please have either of those jobs, for which he is so obviously well-suited? It's probably because I live in the blogtopian bubble but I feel like he's been auditioning for them for months now.

Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean - one of the few reasons still remaining to continue belonging to the party - will be coming to Savannah on Friday as part of a fund-raising tour.

[T]he willingness of Dean to spend time in Georgia is widely seen as more evidence that the national party thinks the tide is turning.

"It's definitely an indication that they think Georgia is in play," said state Democratic Party Treasurer Rex Templeton Jr. of Savannah.

Savannah Alderman Mary Osborne, a leading local Obama backer, agreed.

"They see a great opportunity to turn Georgia back into a Democratic state," she said.

There's going to be a rally in Forsythe Park - which is HUGE - at (ouch!) 8.30AM. Dean will speak for 10 or 15 minutes and then he'll be off for Macon and Augusta for the rest of the day. I plan on being there but it's a real question whether I can make it that early. If I do, I'll let you know what happened. (Dean isn't very popular around here, so it should be interesting, if for no other reason than to see if Barrow, the DINO coward, will allow himself to be seen with Howard in public.)

Thanks to my willingness to believe Edwards' promise not to forget the people he said he was fighting for during his campaign and to Lambert's suggestion to make sure that Clintama don't either, I've officially bounced back completely from Edwards leaving the race and good for me. It took me slightly longer to recover from Howard Dean's withdrawal from the 2004 race but he was my first love. If I ever meet Edwards, I'm going to be sure to try to get his thoughts on how he became the Dean of 2008 after he gave him such a hard time at every opportunity before that. And I'd like to know what happened to put him on that path.

There's exactly one person in politics whom I respect and that's Howard Dean. It's not because I fell in love with his campaign in 2004, although I did. It's not because he's my kind of liberal, although he'll do. It's not because he's the smartest guy in the party, although he is. It's because he has the strength of character to keep working at what he believes by doing a largely thankless job while being undermined by a big part of his party.

There's photoshoppin' afoot and it's changing the context of images that the American people use to make decisions about important events. This will not stand. I eagerly await the purging at the RNC of all responsible for choosing to run an photo enhanced to make Howard Dean look like Hitler in their latest web ad. I expect to see some outraged wingnut bloggers being interviewed about this on CNN any minute now.

I know the email from Democracy for America (formerly Dean for America) is a fund raising scheme but it's a wildly entertaining one:

Dear Robin,

Tom DeLay announced he's quitting Congress
today because he's afraid of losing his seat to a Democrat.

Democracy for America has dogged DeLay for years. With TV commercials and
billboards, at rallies and online, DFA has been on the front lines of the battle
to clean up Congress. But we didn't think DeLay would "cut and run" like he
did.

If he did nothing wrong -- as he claims -- then Tom DeLay shouldn't be afraid
of a re-election campaign in a district he drew for himself. But he is quitting
by mid-June.

Let's help send Tom DeLay the rubber chicken award he so richly deserves:

My favorite memory is when DeLay called my brother, Howard, "a cruel and
extremist demagogue."1 I bet you have a favorite
DeLay memory too. Maybe the lobbyist funded golfing trip to Scotland; or the
time he spouted, "I AM the federal government," in a Washington restaurant while
chomping on a cigar.2

Howard Dean's candor does not hurt you. But when you leave him out
there to draw fire without backing him up and defending him, you hurt
the party. When the establishment Dem consultants tell you not to look
weak, well, in spite of their timid counsel, this is how you do it.

And when state party hacks wander around telling Progressives that they really like Howard, they really do, it's "the party" that doesn't get him like we do, that just makes everyone listening want to hurl all over their $300 loafers.

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Compassionate Conservatism in Action

Molly

"We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war."

Zinn

"[O]ur time, our energy, should be spent in educating, agitating, organizing our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in the schools. Our objective should be to build, painstakingly, patiently but energetically, a movement that, when it reaches a certain critical mass, would shake whoever is in the White House, in Congress, into changing national policy on matters of war and social justice."

Bono

"True religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom. Love thy neighbor is not a piece of advice, it's a command. ...

God, my friends, is with the poor and God is with us, if we are with them. This is not a burden, this is an adventure."

The Reverend Al Sharpton

Ray wasn't singing about what he knew, 'cause Ray had been blind since he was a child. He hadn't seen many purple mountains. He hadn't seen many fruited plains. He was singing about what he believed to be.

Mr. President, we love America, not because of all of us have seen the beauty all the time.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

Marx

''With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent will produce eagerness, 50 percent positive audacity; 100 percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 percent, and there is not a crime which it will not scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged.''